This Friday morning, vehicles and heavy goods vehicles were still stuck on the A28 motorway in Orne because of the snow. Fabrice Fleury is one of these motorists who had to spend the night in their car.
Fabrice Fleury left Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) at 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon. This Friday morning, he was still not close to arriving in Vendée, his final destination. This motorist is one of the people who had the misfortune to find themselves stranded on the A28 motorway, in Orne, due to the snow carried by the Caetano storm.
“I am in a zone which has just been unlocked after almost 8 hours stuck in the car without much information,” Fabrice Fleury tells BFMTV this Friday morning. He explains that he started “to be stuck in Rouen”.
“Everyone was completely stopped. Things are getting clearer, there is hope,” he adds, while noting that snowflakes continued to fall around 6 a.m.: “There are still 3 or 4 centimeters of fresh snow (…) and it's -2°C.”
According to Météo France forecasts, the mercury should remain very low this Friday, at least in the first part of the day, and “widespread frosts between -5°C and 0°C from the northeast to the Massif Central” are expected.
“No information on what happened”
In such conditions, the night of Fabrice Fleury and his companions in misfortune on the A28 was not easy.
“We tried to sleep. Between motorists, we said to each other: 'When it starts again, you will come wake me up.' We tried to sleep alternately because when it starts again, we don't have to block everyone.”
“I had taken something to eat, but it’s not hot,” continues Fabrice Fleury. “We have to save fuel. To be warm, we run the fuel but it drops.”
The motorist especially regrets not having had “any information about what happened” during this difficult night. He and the other drivers finally got some news this Friday shortly before 6 a.m. “after eight hours of waiting, to tell us that it's finally unlocked.”
Will it soon be able to arrive in Vendée as expected? “It’s very difficult to say,” concedes Fabrice Fleury. “I’m already trying to get to the next gas station to refuel.”
